[Slackbuilds-users] New orphans

[Jeremy Hansen]

Just threw together a quick bash for loop that can check that for you. You
just need to have the SBo repo synced to your computer and point it there.

My repo is at ~/sbo-git, but sbopkg users would also have it
/var/lib/sbopkg/SBo/15.0/ and I'm sure other SBo building software have it
stored somewhere on the computer.

for i in $(grep orphaned ~/sbo-git/*/*/*.info | cut -d/ -f3); do ls
/var/log/packages/$i-* 2> /dev/null; done

In doing so, I actually found that iniparser exists in both Slackware and
SBo and it's older than Slackware's version (and hasn't been updated since
2017). It should probably be removed.

Jeremy

On Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 11:39 AM J. Milgram via SlackBuilds-users <
slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

>
> As a way to drum up responses, I wonder if it'd be easy to extend
> sbocheck to flag currently installed packages that are marked as
> orphans... the idea being that if you have it installed, it's likely
> you'll want to see it maintained.
>
> I happened to see a package I use on the list, so I'll take it. But it
> was dumb luck that I noticed it.
>
>
> On 7/25/26 06:11, B. Watson wrote:
> >
> > At this point, as of the update a few minutes ago, we have 10170
> > SlackBuilds in the repo. And 1665 of them are orphaned due to being
> > unmaintained. That's 16% (or 1/6th) of the repo...
> >
> > I encourage everyone to look through the list of orphaned builds and
> > see if there's anything there that looks interesting and/or useful.
> > Anything you find, you can take maintenance of without even asking or
> > telling anyone.
> >
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